Publication: Climate variability drives population cycling and synchrony

There is mounting concern that climate change will lead to the collapse of cyclic population dynamics, yet the influence of climate variability on population cycling remains poorly understood. We hypothesized that variability in survival and fecundity, driven by climate variability at different points in the life cycle, scales up from local populations to drive regional characteristics of population cycling and spatial synchronization.

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: 2010, 2011, 2013, 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Publication, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Vulnerability Assessment, climate change, completed, environment, environment, great lakes, upper midwest, vulnerability, Fewer tags

Report: Digital Conversion of Updated Wisconsin Wetland Inventory

In total this project has developed digital wetland inventory and habitat data for ten counties within and around the Great Lakes watershed of Wisconsin. Digital data has now been completed for the following counties: Sawyer, Sauk, Barron, Polk, Langlade, Menominee, Price, Shawano, Taylor, and Winnebago.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2010, 2011, 2011, 2012, All tags... 2012, 2013, 2014, 2014, Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Map, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Wetlands, completed, environment, environment, maps, minnesota, upper midwest, wisconsin, Fewer tags

2015 LCC Network Areas

Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are public-private partnerships composed of states, tribes, federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, international jurisdictions, and others working together to address landscape and seascape scale conservation issues. LCCs inform resource management decisions to address broad-scale stressors-including habitat fragmentation, genetic isolation, spread of invasive species, and water scarcity-all of which are magnified by a rapidly changing climate. For further information go to https://www.fws.gov/science/catalog. The previous 2011 LCC Network Areas data is available at https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/52f2735ee4b0a6f0bd498c2f

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: ArcGIS Map Package, ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands, Appalachian, Arctic, California, Caribbean, All tags... Desert, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers, Great Basin, Great Northern, Great Plains, Gulf Coast Plains and Ozarks, Gulf Coast Prairie, Inland Waters, LCC, North Atlantic, North Pacific, Northwest Boreal, Pacific Islands, Peninsular Florida, Plains and Prairie Potholes, South Atlantic, Southern Rockies, Unclassified, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, Western Alaska, biota, boundaries, conservation, dataset, environment, fish and wildlife service, landscape conservation cooperatives, partnerships, Fewer tags

2015 LCC Network Areas OGC Webservices

Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are public-private partnerships composed of states, tribes, federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, international jurisdictions, and others working together to address landscape and seascape scale conservation issues. LCCs inform resource management decisions to address broad-scale stressors-including habitat fragmentation, genetic isolation, spread of invasive species, and water scarcity-all of which are magnified by a rapidly changing climate. For further information go to https://www.fws.gov/science/catalog. The previous 2011 LCC Network Areas data is available at https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/52f2735ee4b0a6f0bd498c2f

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands, Appalachian, Arctic, California, Caribbean, All tags... Desert, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers, Great Basin, Great Northern, Great Plains, Gulf Coast Plains and Ozarks, Gulf Coast Prairie, Inland Waters, LCC, North Atlantic, North Pacific, Northwest Boreal, Pacific Islands, Peninsular Florida, Plains and Prairie Potholes, South Atlantic, Southern Rockies, Unclassified, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, Western Alaska, biota, boundaries, conservation, dataset, environment, fish and wildlife service, landscape conservation cooperatives, partnerships, Fewer tags

Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative, USA

Landscape conservation cooperatives (LCCs) are conservation-science partnerships between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and other federal agencies, states, tribes, NGOs, universities and stakeholders within a geographically defined area. They inform resource management decisions to address national-scale stressors-including habitat fragmentation, genetic isolation, spread of invasive species, and water scarcity-all of which are accelerated by climate change.

Tags: conservation, fish and wildlife service, landscape conservation cooperatives, partnerships

U.S. Geological Survey Gap Analysis Program- Land Cover Data v2.2- Ecological Systems Land Use

This dataset combines the work of several different projects to create a seamless data set for the contiguous United States. Data from four regional Gap Analysis Projects and the LANDFIRE project were combined to make this dataset. In the northwestern United States (Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Washington and Wyoming) data in this map came from the Northwest Gap Analysis Project. In the southwestern United States (Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah) data used in this map came from the Southwest Gap Analysis Project. The data for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia came from the Southeast Gap Analysis Project and the California data was...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Aleutian and Berind Sea Islands, Appalachian, Arctic, Northwestern Interior Forest, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, California, Central United States, Colorado, Connecticut, Continental United States, Delaware, Desert, District of Columbia, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers, Florida, Georgia, Great Basin, Great Northern, Great Plains, Gulf Coast Plains and Ozarks, Gulf Coast Prairie, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Atlantic, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northeastern United States, Northwestern United States, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pacific Islands, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southeastern United States, Southern Rockies, Southwestern United States, Tennessee, Texas, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Western Alaska, Wisconsin, Wyoming, biota, ecology, environment, land cover, landcover, vegetation, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags

California LCC ecoregions

In 2013 the California LCC designated these ecoregions as subregions of the LCC.

Tags: CALCC, conservation, fish and wildlife service, landscape conservation cooperatives, partnerships

U.S. Geological Survey Gap Analysis Project- Land Cover Data v2.2

This dataset combines the work of several different projects to create a seamless data set for the contiguous United States. Data from four regional Gap Analysis Projects and the LANDFIRE project were combined to make this dataset. In the northwestern United States (Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Washington and Wyoming) data in this map came from the Northwest Gap Analysis Project. In the southwestern United States (Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah) data used in this map came from the Southwest Gap Analysis Project. The data for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia came from the Southeast Gap Analysis Project and the California data was...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Aleutian and Berind Sea Islands, Appalachian, Arctic, Northwestern Interior Forest, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, California, Central United States, Colorado, Connecticut, Continental United States, Delaware, Desert, District of Columbia, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers, Florida, Georgia, Great Basin, Great Northern, Great Plains, Gulf Coast Plains and Ozarks, Gulf Coast Prairie, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Atlantic, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northeastern United States, Northwestern United States, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pacific Islands, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, SageDAT-data, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southeastern United States, Southern Rockies, Southwestern United States, Tennessee, Texas, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Western Alaska, Wisconsin, Wyoming, biota, ecology, environment, land cover, landcover, landingPage, vegetation, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags

Predicting climate change effects on riverine aquatic insects in the Upper Midwest

Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera), and caddisflies (Trichoptera) (a.k.a. EPT taxa) are the most environmentally sensitive of freshwater insects. They are utilized the world over as indicators of water quality in flowing waters. Their decline has been documented in Asia, Europe, and North America. A 220,321 record dataset of new and museum EPT specimen records covering much of the Midwest and Maximum Entropy (Maxent) software were used construct to current and future, climate influenced distribution models. Nearly 100 physical and historic vegetation variables and 9 BIOCLIM variables derived from downscaled climate data for the region were employed in this process. A total of 426 EPT species were...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, All tags... 2013, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, aquatic insects, climate change, completed, environment, environment, modeling, upper midwest, Fewer tags

Report: Predicting climate change effects on riverine aquatic insects in the Upper Midwest

Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera), and caddisflies (Trichoptera) (a.k.a. EPT taxa) are the most environmentally sensitive of freshwater insects. They are utilized the world over as indicators of water quality in flowing waters. Their decline has been documented in Asia, Europe, and North America. A 220,321 record dataset of new and museum EPT specimen records covering much of the Midwest and Maximum Entropy (Maxent) software were used construct to current and future, climate influenced distribution models. Nearly 100 physical and historic vegetation variables and 9 BIOCLIM variables derived from downscaled climate data for the region were employed in this process. A total of 426 EPT species were...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, All tags... 2013, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Report, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, aquatic insects, climate change, completed, environment, environment, modeling, upper midwest, Fewer tags

Publication: Effects of alternative forest management on biomass and species diversity in the face of climate change in the northern Great Lakes region

Northern Great Lakes forests represent an ecotone in the boreal–temperate transition zone and are expected to change dramatically with climate change. Managers are increasingly seeking adaptation strategies to manage these forests. We explored the efficacy of two alternative management scenarios compared with business-as-usual (BAU) management: expanding forest reserves meant to preserve forest identity and increase resistance, and modified silviculture meant to preserve forest function and increase adaptive capacity. Our study landscapes encompassed northeastern Minnesota and northern Lower Michigan, which are predicted to experience significant changes in a future climate and represent a gradient of latitude,...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, All tags... 2013, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Private land owners, Publication, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Vulnerability Assessment, climate change, completed, connectivity, environment, environment, forests, upper midwest, Fewer tags

Wetland hydroperiod and climate change; implications for biodiversity and water availability

Wetland hydroperiod, the length of time water is available in wetlands, is particularly sensitive to changes in precipitation, temperature and timing due to climate variation. Truncated hydroperiod has major implications for wetland-dependent species (e.g., waterfowl) and human water allocation. Researchers aim to link hydroperiod to current climatic variation and use this relationship to predict wetland hydroperiod across the moisture gradient from sage steppe to grasslands.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, 2012, 2013, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Publication, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, climate change, completed, environment, environment, plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, water availability, wetlands, Fewer tags

Consolidation Drainage and Climate Change May Reduce Piping Plover Habitat in the Great Plains

Many waterbird species utilize a diversity of aquatic habitats; however, with increasing anthropogenic needs tomanage water regimes there is global concern over impacts to waterbird populations. The federally threatened pipingplover (Charadrius melodus; hereafter plovers) is a shorebird that breeds in three habitat types in the Prairie PotholeRegion of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Canada: riverine sandbars; reservoir shorelines; and prairie wetlands. Watersurface areas of these habitats fluctuate in response to wet–dry periods; decreasing water surface areas exposeshorelines that plovers utilize for nesting. Climate varies across the region so when other habitats are unavailable forplover nesting because of flooding,...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, 2012, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Monitoring, Plains and Prairie Potholes, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Publication, Waterbirds, climate change, completed, consolidated drainage, environment, environment, piping plover, plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, wetlands, Fewer tags

Iowa Wetland Assessment and Restorable Wetland Inventory Phase-I Report

Map drained wetland basins in the PPR of Iowa and complete data set for the eastern (Region 3) of the U.S. Prairie Pothole Regionl. These data form the foundation for a newly launced inititative to develop an “Integrated Conservation Design Strategy for the PPR of Minnesota and Iowa.” This new initiative integrates wildlife habitat, water quality and flood attenuation objectives with wetland restoration potential maps to develop multi-objective wetland restoration plans for landscape-scale watershed.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, All tags... Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Iowa, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Prairie Pothole Region, Report, Report, State agencies, Wetlands, completed, environment, environment, plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, Fewer tags

Sediment Accumulation in Prairie Wetlands under a Changing Climate: the Relative Roles of Landscape and Precipitation

Sediment accumulation threatens the viability and hydrologic functioning of many naturally formed depressional wetlands across the interior regions of North America. These wetlands provide many ecosystem services and vital habitats for diverse plant and animal communities. Climate change may further impact sediment accumulation rates in the context of current land use patterns. We estimated sediment accretion in wetlands within a region renowned for its large populations of breeding waterfowl and migrant shorebirds and examined the relative roles of precipitation and land use context in the sedimentation process. We modeled rates of sediment accumulation from 1971 through 2100 using the Revised Universal Soil Loss...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Climate change, Conservation NGOs, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Federal resource managers, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Presentation, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, avian conservation, climate models, downscale climate models, environment, environment, migratory birds, plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, publication, Fewer tags

Report: Manajiwin: Respecting tribes, First nations and cultural resources in cooperative landscape and climate change decision-making

This project will improve tribal and First Nation engagement in cooperative natural resource conservation efforts. Researchers are fostering networking among tribes, First Nations and other relevant partners in the upper Midwest – Great Lakes region, and engaging tribal and First Nation representatives in the development of a set of principles and strategies for their authentic, robust inclusion in regional resource conservation cooperative frameworks. The project is conducting an environmental scan of current climate and landscape change planning initiatives as well as mitigation and resilience-building projects being implemented by tribes and First Nations in the region. The results will lead to broader inclusion...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, All tags... 2013, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Regional & county planners, Report, Report, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, climate change, completed, cultural resources, environment, environment, first nations, great lakes, manajiwin, tribal, tribes, upper midwest, Fewer tags

Fish and Wildlife Service landscape conservation cooperatives

Landscape conservation cooperatives (LCCs) are conservation-science partnerships between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and other federal agencies, states, tribes, NGOs, universities and stakeholders within a geographically defined area. They inform resource management decisions to address national-scale stressors-including habitat fragmentation, genetic isolation, spread of invasive species, and water scarcity-all of which are accelerated by climate change.

Tags: conservation, fish and wildlife service, landscape conservation cooperatives, partnerships

North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC)

Landscape conservation cooperatives (LCCs) are conservation-science partnerships between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and other federal agencies, states, tribes, NGOs, universities and stakeholders within a geographically defined area. They inform resource management decisions to address national-scale stressors-including habitat fragmentation, genetic isolation, spread of invasive species, and water scarcity-all of which are accelerated by climate change.

Tags: conservation, fish and wildlife service, landscape conservation cooperatives, partnerships

Remote Sensing of Migratory Waterbird Ground Surveys Report

The efficiency and effectiveness of aerial photography by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Midwest Aviation Program has been improved with upgraded components for the Applanix DSS 439 Camera System, including a 60 millimeter lens and gyro-stabilization mount. Both are installed and in use. The stabilization mount improves image resolution and minimizes asymmetrical pixels. The 60 millimeter lens also improves image resolution for higher quality aerial photographs. This advanced equipment results in more accurate bird counts and stereo interpretation of vegetation maps which will ultimately assist management decisions made in biological programs.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Map, Mississippi River Basin, Report, WI-03, Wisconsin, completed, eastern tallgrass prairie and big rivers landscape conservation cooperative, environment, environment, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, remote sensing, Fewer tags

Effects of oil and gas development on grassland birds

Oil and gas development in North Dakota is occurring at a rapid rate, and managers and biologists are ill-equipped to address and minimize damage from oil development and related activities on fish and wildlife habitat. This project aims to gather information on impacts to grassland birds from oil and gas development to better inform conservation managers.The 2012 pilot season was a success. Bird surveys were conducted at 18 oil wells and four control sites. Preliminary findings showed reduced densities of grassland birds near wells compared with away from wells, but the effect varied among species. Continuing work will strengthen inferences as well as attempt to assess effects on uncommon species such as Baird’s...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, Conservation Planning, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Report, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, energy development, environment, environment, grassland birds, oil and gas, plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, Fewer tags